Quilling-machine.



G. ADSIT. QUILLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED AUG.4, 1911.

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QUILLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED AUG.4, 1911.

Patented Oct. 27, 1914.

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GEORGE ADSIT, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO BENJAMIN EASTWOOD COMPANY, OF IPATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

QUILLING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27, 1914.

Original application filed August 24, 1910, Serial No. 578,676. Divided and this application filed August 4, 1911. Serial No. 642,276.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncn Ansrr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Quilling-Machines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This inVention relates to machines for forming cops and the like, the present application being a division of my application for Letters Patent Serial Number 578,676, filed August 24, 1910, (now Patent No. 1,063,235).

One part of the present invention relates "particularly to the mechanism in such machines for controlling the Winding means:

and this involves the employment of a revoluble eccentric arranged eccentrically on a movable but normally restrained trip member revoluble toa position where it will be released, the said eccentric being adapted to be engaged by the cop being wound to transmit a rocking or rotary motion to and thereby effect the release of the trip member.

Another part of my invention relates particularly to the mechanism in such machines for controlling the operative relation be tween a driven element, such. as the reciprocating thread-guide, and its driving member, and this part of my invention consists in a controlling means comprising an actuating member and an actuated member movable in crossing paths and one havingza cam-surface cngageable by the other and disposed obliquely to the path of movement of the actuating member whereby, upon movement of the actuating member, the actuated member will be moved to perform the controlling function with respect to the driving and driven elements.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional. view of a machine (commonly known as a quilling machine) constructed in accordance with my invention,.only so much thereof being shown as is necessary for. the purpose of this description; Fig.2 is a plan view of what appears in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view substantially in theverticalplane of the pin 0, a certain arm 'r' hanging in the pendant position and appearing in elevation.

I shall first briefly describe the elements illustrated in the accompanying drawings concerned immediately. in the forming of a wound package, the construction, operation and arrangement of which are set forth more 5 1n detall in my application referred to.

In the side-rail a of the frame 6 and in a bolster bearing 0 carried by the intermediate rail 03 are respectively ournaled the spindle c and shaft j" disconnectively connected together by the clutch-connection g, the same as 1n my Patent No. 757,081, the spindle belng longitudinally movable in the forward direction to break the clutch-connection. The shaft carriesa whirl h driven by a suitably supported and driven belt 2' (Fig. 1). The pirn j, forming the axis of winding, is supported by the forward end of the spindle (being suitably clutched thereto soas to be rotated thereby) and by a spring-pressed plunger is alined with the spindle and carried by the fixed support Z projecting from the side-rail a.

m is a bracket secured to the side-rail a and having a downwardly bent arm n, and pendant from this arm and pivoted therein at 0 is a forked arm 39 to which is fixed a forked plate {1, the forked portions of the arm and plate coinciding; the forked arm and plate I shallhereinafter term a fork r. The part p of this fork has the parallel cheeks e in which, projecting through the fork, is pivoted an arm i normally pressed downwardly by a spring it, its position being always virtually horizontal as seen in front '85 elevation. Pivoted to the arm 25 on an axis parallel with the pivot 0 is a block 1) carrying a blade 10 slitted to form a guide for the thread and adapted to rest flat against the pirn or the windings thereon,-the block carrying a thread-retaining clip or.

The bracket m supports twoparallel plates y, arranged, spaced, in vertical planes, and having the opposite slots a. In these slots travels a crosshead 2 which is received by, the fork 1' (Figs. .1 and To this crosshcad is pivotally connected the end of a hook 3 whose straight under edge stat its rear end is interrupted by a recess 5. The hook may be raised and lowered out of and into supported relation to a pin 6 in the forked upper end of an arm 7 carried by a suitably actuated rock shaft 8 and when lowered into supported relation to said pin the pin will, in the rocking of the arm, find its Way into the recess 5 whereby the hook will be coupled to the arm and thereupon receive reoiprocatory movement therefrom.

I make no claim herein to the mechanism, per 86, so far described.

The disestablishing of the clutch-connec tion 9 and the raising of the driven member or hook 3 out of operative engagement with its driving member (rocking arm 7) are accomplished, as Well as the reverse of these operations, as follows: A trip-member or push-rod 9, having a fork 10 engaging a peripheral groove 11 in the movable member of the clutch connection (slidable on the spindle) and a pin 12 engaging an inclined slot 13 (whose sides form cam-surfaces oblique to the line of movement of the pushrod) in a lever 14 pivoted in abracket 15 attached to the side-rail a and provided with a i pin 16 which underlies the hook 3 and will raise the same when the lever is swung upwardly,-is normally forced forwardly by a spring 17 inclosed in the tubular casing 18 for the push-rod, but may be locked back by a 1pin 19 thereon being made to engage in the 0 set portion of an angular slot 20 in the casing receiving the pin.

Upon rotating the push-rod, its pin clears the offset portion of the slot 20, allowing the spring to urge it forward, the efi'ect of which will be to, advance the movable member of the clutch connection 9 until the clutch connection is broken and by virtue of the oblique slot and pin connection between the push-rod and lever 14:, elevate the latter and cause it to raise the hook out of engagement with the rocking arm 7. The connections thus broken may of course be reestablished by pushing back the push-rod until its pin snaps into the offset portion of the slot 20. The push-rod thus forms an actuating member and the hook an actuated member motion from the former of which to the latter follows because of the oblique disposition of the cam surfaces of the slot relatively to the line of thrust of the push-rod.

The release of the push-rod is accomplished automatically from the package being wound when it has assumed a predetermined diameter as follows: An arm 21 is attached to the push-rod, preferably having a splitcollar 22 embracing the latter and held thereto by a screw 23 so that the arm may be adjusted relatively to the pirn. In the end of this arm is journaled an eccentric 24 standing below the pirn. When the growing package has assumed a predetermined diameter it wipes against the periphery of the eccentric and, turning the same, thereby effects the crowding of the arm downwardly,

partially rotating the push-rod in its bearing suficiently to clear the pin thereon from the ofiset portion of slot 20 and allow the push-rod to spring forward.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

p 1. In combination, with a support and the winding mechanism including a rotary spindle having a fixed bearing in the support, mechanism for controlling the winding mechanism including a rotary trip member having movement in the support longitudinally of its axis of rotation and substantially parallel with the spindle, means normally urging said member longitudinally in one direction, said member being normally held against movementin said direction by the support and being rotatable into released relation to the support, and an eccentric revoluble on said member eccentrically thereof and engageable by the package being wound, substantially as described.

2. In combination, a supporting means, a wound-package-forming mechanism to be controlled arranged in said supporting means, a controlling member for said mechanism pivotally movable in a plane into and out of controlling engagement with said mechanism, and a package-controlled member for actuatingthe'first member movable rectilineally in a plane parallel with the first plane and against the first member to move the latter, one of said members having a cam-surface engaged by the other and extending across the line of movement of the actuating member, substantially as described.

3, In combination, with a supporting means, a wound-package-forming mechanism, and means for controlling said mechanism from the package being wound comprising a package-controlled actuating member rectilineally movable in the support, and a motion-transmitting member also movable in the support in a plane and in a path crossing the path of movement of the actuating member, one of said members having a cam-surface engageable by the other and displaced obliquely to the path of movement of the actuating member, substantially as described.

4:. In combination, with a support, a wound-package-forming mechanism including a rotary spindle, and means for controlling said mechanism from the package being wound comprising a rectilineally movable member normally held against movement in the support and rotatable into released relation to the support, a motiontransmitting member also movable in the support in a path crossing the path of movement of the rectilineally movable member, one of said members having a cam-surface engageable by the other and disposed In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

obliquely to the rlgeth of movement of the GEORGE ADSIT.

rectilineally move 1e member, and an eccentric revoluble on the reetilineally movable member eccentrically thereof and engage- I Witnesses:

5 able by the package being Wound, substan- WM. D. BELL,

tially as described. JOHN W. STEWARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five eents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Z Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

